Sunday, December 25, 2011

from the BRG archives: Christmas Poems

Christmas is a-coming,The goose is getting fat,Please to put a pennyIn an old man’s hat.If you haven’t got a penny,A ha’penny will do.If you haven’t got a ha’penny,God bless you!

FOR ALLANWho wanted to see how I wrote a poemby Robert Frost

Among these mountains, do you know.I have a farm, and on it growA thousand lovely Christmas trees.I’d like to send you one of these,But it’s against the laws.A man may give a little boyA book, a useful knife, a toy,Or even a rhyme like this by me(I wrote it just like this you see),But nobody may give a treeExcepting Santa Claus.

DAY BEFORE CHRISTMASby Marchette Chute

We have been helping with the cakeAnd licking out the pan,And wrapping up our packagesAs neatly as we can.And we have hung our stockings upBeside the open grate.And now there’s nothing more to doExcepttowait!

CAROL OF THE BROWN KINGby Langston Hughes

Of the three Wise MenWho came to the King,One was a brown man,So they sing.

Of the three Wise menWho followed the Star,One was a brown kingFrom afar.

Heap on more wood!—the wind is chill;But let it whistle as it will,We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.

CHRISTMAS by Marchette Chute

My goodness, my goodness,It’s Christmas again.The bells are all ringing.I do not know whenI’ve been so excited.The tree is all fixed.The candles are lighted,The pudding is mixed.The wreath’s on the doorAnd the carols are sung.The presents are wrappedAnd the holly is hung.The turkey is sittingAll safe in its pan,And I am behavingAs calm as I can.

I HEARD THE BELLS ON CHRISTMAS DAYby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I heard the bells on Christmas dayTheir old familiar carols play,And wild and sweetThe words repeatOf peace on earth, good will to men!

And thought how, as the day had come,The belfries of all ChristendomHad rolled alongThe unbroken songOf peace on earth, good will to men!

Till, ringing, singing, on its way,The world revolved from night to day,A voice, a chime,A chant sublimeOf peace on earth, good will to men!

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